Hoyer: Republicans Will Sink America To Drown Obama

Filed in National by on June 21, 2012

More like this please…

Add House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-MD) to the list of high profile Democrats who are publicly accusing Republicans of intentionally undermining the economy in order to defeat President Obama.

“There’s no intention on behalf of the Republicans in the House of Representatives to try to help the president move this country forward,” Hoyer told a small group of reporters in his Capitol office on Thursday morning. “I quote Jesse Jackson, who I thought said it best, there are a lot people in Washington who want to drown the captain and are prepared to sink the ship in order to do so.”

Hoyer joins Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and others who say the House GOP’s refusal to adopt even bipartisan measures like funding for transportation projects, and the renewed brinksmanship over the debt limit suggest that Republicans are engaged in deliberate economic sabotage. -via TPM

At some point, unless he is content to be a one term President, Obama is going to have to run hard directly at the fucking bastards and dim-wits in congress.

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  1. cassandra m says:

    Yes he will have to. He has done a little of this, but it needs to be a sustained effort. I was thinking about this listening to Fast and Furious news today — the House has officially spent more time on Fast and Furious and restricting women’s reproductive rights than they have in trying to get Americans employed. They ran on jobsjobsjobs and where the heck are they? It is well past time to start hammering these guys for doing nothing.

    And while I’m at it — why doesn’t Obama have better surrogates?

  2. jason330 says:

    UPDATE:

    Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley (D), chair of the Democratic Governors Association, accused Mitt Romney of rooting for the economy to tank after Bloomberg News reported his capaign pressured Florida Governor Rick Scott (R) to stop talking about growth in his state. Romney’s campaign has since denied that they confronted Scott over the issue.

    “If we learned anything from today’s revelation that Mitt Romney urged Governor Rick Scott to downplay good economic news in Florida, it’s this: Mitt Romney would rather see the American economy fail before the election than see President Obama win,” O’Malley said in a statement. “We’ve seen this same approach from Republicans in Congress, who have blocked the President’s jobs programs all in the name of slowing the economic recovery for partisan gain.”

    Two in one day!!

  3. puck says:

    “why doesn’t Obama have better surrogates?”

    Because Obama’s M.O. is to run to the left, and then pivot to the center-right after the election. We don’t have many Democrats who are willing or able to take that trip with him, especially not on the front side.

  4. Heck Yeah says:

    why is the economy doing well in Florida, WI and NJ? And why doesnt Holder just turn over the documents and the fight for Fast and Furious would be over. It is Holder that is wasting time, then Obama clames Executive power. BS. What about the transparent open president.

  5. V says:

    someone please light Heck Yeah on fire.

  6. Idealist says:

    NJ has one of the highest unemployment rates in the region at 9.2%

  7. jason330 says:

    If the Florida economy is doing well I can’t imagine that it has anything to do with that martian freak-show posing as governor.

  8. Von Cracker says:

    Keep saying it every single fucking time the horserace media shitheads ask about the economy. Even though it’s true, and even self-professed by conservative leaders, the simple media hacks have to hear it 90 gazzilion times to believe it’s true.

    But alas, that would make them choose sides too early in the reaping season. Can’t have that when you’re looking to max-out ad revenue come this fall!

  9. Roland D. LeBay says:

    @Heck Yeah–

    What makes you think Florida’s economy is doing well? Jobs are scarce in Florida, and it will take years for FL to recover from the collapse of the housing market.

  10. Podium says:

    Really, Heck Yeah? Unemployment is 9.2% in NJ, 8.6% in FL, and Wisconsin matches Delaware at 6.8%. New Jersey has the fifth highest unemployment rate and Florida is ninth. These are your utopias?